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Speak softly, drive a Sherman tank

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β€œShould” being the activator here

29.10.2025 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He WISHES he could be as popular

29.10.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump is always unflattering

29.10.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Getouttahere by Super City on AppleΒ Music Song Β· 2023 Β· Duration 2:29

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29.10.2025 04:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Video: A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame? Designed to be the crown jewel of Billionaires’ Row in New York City, the supertall tower at 432 Park Avenue is now facing serious problems. Stefanos Chen, a reporter for The New York Times’s Metro se...

I love this for them

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19.10.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Can't Seem To Find A Reason
YouTube video by The Candy Rocks - Topic Can't Seem To Find A Reason

Ah sure go on you know you wanna
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10.10.2025 04:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Google Accused of Blocking Searches About Trump, 79, and Dementia The president has long faced questions about his alleged mental decline.

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01.10.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: β€˜They’re paying me enough to look the other way’ Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh comedy festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

Complicit arseholes

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01.10.2025 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We should make them into socio pΓ’tΓ©

28.09.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisd...

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28.09.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.

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13.09.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Carlo Acutis: From London baptism to first millennial saint Before his death at 15, Carlo Acutis was known for his love of technology and had created a website to document miracles.

I dont understand this at all

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07.09.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ordered a ginger beer - not quite sure what happened here

22.08.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza

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12.08.2025 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI will make Dublin’s MetroLink obsolete, says Dermot Desmond Businessman says Government should abandon project as AI will lead to rise in self-driving cars

This guy just made my list.

AI will make Dublin’s MetroLink obsolete, says Dermot Desmond

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05.08.2025 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Columbia Sportswear sues Columbia University for trademark infringement Company says university broke 2023 agreement by branding school clothes similarly to apparel company’s merchandise

In today’s episode of β€œEverything is Ridiculous”
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02.08.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜I’m hoping to be the world’s youngest dirty old man’: the wit of Tom Lehrer, by those who knew him The musical satirist, who has died aged 97, was famously sharp and funny – but his contemporaries also remember his generosity and humility

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29.07.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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American Eagle faces backlash over β€˜Sydney Sweeney has great jeans’ ad Some critics allege phrase is coded promotion of eugenics and accuse campaign of being β€˜tone deaf’

Sorry love, but personality does not come from your genes

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29.07.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI Sam Altman also said AI could already diagnose better than doctors, as his company expands into Washington

High on his own supply. Get over yourself, AI can’t do everything

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23.07.2025 06:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ozzy Osbourne dies just weeks after farewell show The heavy metal star reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates on stage at Villa Park earlier in July.

Ozzy, in the underworld, screaming at the ferryman: Charon! Charon!

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Pete Hegseth is skirting law by bringing back Confederate names of army bases US defense secretary reverted to Fort Bragg and Fort Benning, but the men they honor aren’t role models

Everything they do is horrible.
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21.07.2025 07:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

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15.07.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Forever in debt, to your priceless advice

15.07.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey - History Repeating
YouTube video by WallofSoundRecording Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey - History Repeating

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04.07.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Live updates: Congress passes Trump spending bill after days of debate and delay Donald Trump has said he wants the

Bye bye, America. Its been nice knowing you.

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03.07.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gen X: We’re serious, but actually we’re not

01.07.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Room for One More on Mount Rushmore? (The President Wants to Know.) Let’s review how we got here, and closely examine what the rock would allow.

The fact that this article even exists makes me want to kill myself

Room for One More on Mount Rushmore? (The President Wants to Know.) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

01.07.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet β€œCleopathra”, spelled that way because of me accent

19.06.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'It haunts a lot of people': Hope and sadness on streets of Tuam as excavation work begins The process of excavating children’s unmarked burials at the site of a former mother and baby home started in Tuam on Monday.

May their tiny bones rest in peace

'It haunts a lot of people': Hope and sadness on streets of Tuam as excavation work begins jrnl.ie/6734455

17.06.2025 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Flattery or Discipline? The Difficult Task of Managing Trump.

What a stupid state of affairs to have to be asking this question

Flattery or Discipline? The Difficult Task of Managing Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/w...

17.06.2025 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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